Jun 30 2011
Idling
Rob is doing pretty well. He admits to his pain being about a 5 on a scale of 10, which means it’s probably more like a 7. It’s bad enough for him to actually be taking the pain meds he brought home from the hospital. He usually shuns them like the plague. The anesthesiologist, looking at his chart before the operation, said that he had done “a remarkable job of avoiding opiates”. But having your throat slashed open and people rooting around in your spine for a few hours can be attitude changing.
I have to admit that just seeing him walk over to my house, while it makes me nervous, also makes me glad that he’s not paralyzed or worse. We were lucky that Megan did so much research and found such an excellent surgical team.
In about 6 weeks, Rob will go back and they’ll check him out. Hopefully he’ll get the all-clear to do more than Nothing, which he is not good at doing.
While Rob’s been doing Nothing, I’ve been trying to catch up on my jobs. It’s been hard and I’ve been more tired than I’ve been since the long vigil at Mom’s bedside. I guess hospital time will do that to you.
Tomorrow is Megan and Rob’s 20th wedding anniversary. We have a lot to celebrate.